Via The Economist, a look at how tensions with the West are fuelling China’s anxiety about food supplies American soyabean farmers could draw some comfort from the tariffs that China imposed on an array of American imports on February 10th. Foodstuffs like theirs were not affected by China’s countermeasures against the 10% levy on Chinese imports […]
Read more »Via Bloomberg, a look at China’s substantial efforts to future-proof itself for trade wars and the return of Donald Trump: China’s quest to feed itself has taken it as far as Kenya’s macadamia nut groves and Bolivia’s cattle ranches, as part of a push in recent years to diversify food sources away from traditional Western […]
Read more »Via Grist, a look at how climate change is scrambling where the world’s food is grown, a reality that will lead to more tensions over who owns that land: Twelve years ago, Vincenzo Amata stumbled upon a plot of flowering trees while wandering the Sicilian countryside. Before long, he found a farmer tending the grove. […]
Read more »Via the Financial Times, commentary on how climate change and population pressures are beginning to drive a new surge of competition over territory: As the world’s climate changes, scientists observe that the southern Californian rainy season is starting later and ending earlier, lining up the peak of the dry season closely with the period of […]
Read more »Via Bloomberg, a look at China’s substantial efforts to future-proof itself for trade wars and the return of Donald Trump: China’s quest to feed itself has taken it as far as Kenya’s macadamia nut groves and Bolivia’s cattle ranches, as part of a push in recent years to diversify food sources away from traditional Western […]
Read more »Via the Regina Leader-Post, a report on how foreign ownership of Saskatchewan farmland remains a concern for producers: Jeremy Welter is worried about the regulations that govern foreign purchasing and ownership of land. “The biggest concern is, it doesn’t seem like there’s enough teeth in the current legislation,” said Welter, vice-president of the Agricultural Producers […]
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